This is a collection of previously unpublished articles by established as well as promising young scholars in Japanese language and gender studies.

Japanese Language, Gender and Ideology is a collection of previously unpublished articles by established as well as promising young scholars in Japanese languag

The book examines women’s language as an ideological construct historically created by discourse. The aim is to demonstrate, by delineating a genealogy of Jap

Abe presents a comprehensive picture of the linguistic strategies employed by Japanese sexual minorities in various social contexts, from magazine advice column

Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express di